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Checking for square: Framing tolerance?
All: In laying out the wall locations for a storage shed, I'm checking my layout for squareness and need some real-world insight on the tolerances, if any, I should take into account when peforming my...
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Re: Matthews shaper
Does not your instinct warn you that it would be a mistake for you to marry me? No; I cannot say that it does. Then trust to mine, which gives forth no uncertain note on this question, as your...
 
fastening a compression spring without a through bolt?
It's sort of shaped like a porkpie hat. The "brim" is as wide as the OD of the spring, and the "hat" part just fits into the ID of the spring. The part is drilled & tapped axially. About 240 degrees...
 
Performax benchtop sander
'After premising thus much, it would be a work of supererogation to add, that dust and ashes are for ever scattered On The Head Of WILKINS JOHNNY. Poor Frapples! I knew enough of Mr. Johnny by this...
 
Re: Exacta fence rail size?
He is the best man: let the best man win. So, fire away, mamma. And you think we are really like one another? said Mrs. Smith, not heeding Yeva. Then Yeva saw Lowry, his face fully as fierce as...
 
Making project wood from tree limbs
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Mongolian woodworking
Hi, 'My Agnes is very young still; and mother and me will have to work our way upwards, and make a good many new arrangements, before it would be quite convenient. Amato said Kalidas thought it was...
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Re: Eccesso siamo qua ...
"Hidalgo Velázquez" ha scritto nel messaggio news: Tarallo 'a mazzo d' 'o cavallo emorroico...
 
A TIP that may save you a lot of grief
I didn't discover this stuff - Michael Fortune did - and share this tip in one of his woodworking show classes. If you've spent hours cleaning up Glue Squeeze Out, If you've dinged a piece scraping...
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Cutting weird joist angles... Sawzall?
I'm building a deck. The basic shape is a rectangle. It's about 28.5 feet long, 17.5 feet wide on one end and 4 feet on the other, and the angled side is about 28 feet. The angle works out to be...
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laminating cherry stock for a gun stock
I have some great cherry stock I want to make into a rifle stock. All boards are 3/4 stock cut to rough length. I need to know if anyone has a good technique for laminating stock this thick, I need to...
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OT: Why is it called 'Iowa'?
|| Robatoy wrote: || ||| IOWA. The Sioux word for "beautiful land," or "one who puts to ||| sleep." || || Interesting - and all this time I thought it was an incomplete || sentence. || | as in: I owe...
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Shop expansion decision
Took the words right out of my mouth...ermm..fingers.....keyboard.
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Toe kick (and other) advice needed
I'm actually not real new to woodworking - been at it for a while, but my attention recently seems to have turned to kitchen/bath cabinetry. I have read through a couple of books and John Paquay's...
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Router table fence question
--Ran into a situation the other day where I had to rout a series of parallel slots in half a dozen pieces. Setting the stops on the router fence is easy enough for one set of slots but when you...
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